Pat has been an active member of the food safety community for the last 15 years, serving in numerous roles including manufacturing and laboratory management before starting his own consulting business in 2018. Prior to starting his own business, Pat’s served as the supervisor of a research and development laboratory where he worked on the development and validation of rapid diagnostic methods for microbiology, allergens and mycotoxins. As a consultant, Pat continues to work with method developers, laboratories and industry to optimize method performance and testing workflow. In December 2018, Pat joined AOAC INTERNATIONAL as a technical consultant, where he works on the development of validation outlines for the Performance Tested MethodsSM (PTM) and Official Method of AnalysisSM (OMA) process as well as assisting in the development of new programs. Pat has served as co-chair of the microbiology working group for the AOAC Cannabis Analytical Science Program, served as a director at large on the AOAC Research Institute Board of Directors, as well as co-chairing the AOAC working group on Acceptance Criteria for Quantitative Microbiology Methods. Pat is an active member of the US ISO/TC34/SC9 Food Microbiology TAG group serving on two working groups: WG3 for Method Validation and WG19 Guidelines for conducting challenge studies. Within WG3, Pat is co-chair to the amendment to ISO 16140-2 validation guidelines for proprietary methods as well as co-chair for the development of ISO 16140-7, identification validation guidelines. Pat is also involved with the IAFP PDG Applied Laboratory Methods working group on Method Validation and Verification. Pat holds a BS in Microbiology from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and a MS in Food Safety from Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI.
